Visitors will learn about the history and principles of creating Garage Archive Collection, about the place of St. Petersburg archives in the collection, and about opportunities for researchers.
The main part of the meeting will explore the key events and people of the local art scene as represented by artifacts that relate to more than 70 years of Leningrad/St. Petersburg’s unofficial culture. We will look at such important events as the exhibitions of scaffolders at the Hermitage and nonconformists at the Gaz and Nevsky Palaces of Culture, and the life and work of the artists Rikhard Vasmi, Timur Novikov, Vladislav Mamyshev-Monroe, and other members of independent creative associations, such as the Order of Non-Selling Painters, the Association of Experimental Visual Art, and the New Artists. The focus will also be on the synergic nature of St. Petersburg culture, bringing together people from the visual arts, literature, and music, which led to the appearance of rave culture and cyberfeminism in Russia in the early 1990s. The connecting element of the tour will be objects from a thematic collection of samizdat, artist’s books, and zines (including by contemporary artists).